Today I have another Ina Garten recipe. In fact, the recipe for these cookies is the same as the chocolate chunk blondies recipe I posted yesterday. I was in a dilemma if I should post this or not. As I was debating whether to bake the cookies or not and even if I do bake the recipe, this time I was going to make only 1/4th of the recipe. Since quarter of the recipe would require ½ egg, I made it eggless. Though the recipe is same as the blondies, since this is an eggless version and these are cookies, this justifies for a separate post.

During BM#50 meet, Gayathri gave us a printed handbook of some of her recipes and she also had few suggestions for egg substitutes. I followed her suggestion and used yogurt as a substitute for egg. The cookies turned out good and I finished off all the cookies but I do confess I liked the blondies better. I like chewy cookies and these were bit on the crispier side. Reducing the baking time by couple of minutes might have given me chewier cookies. The mug you see in the pictures is a gift from one of the Chennai bloggersPadma. During the BM#50 meet, Chennai bloggers put all their goodies in one gift bag. So I do not know who gave this. Since I mentioned Gayathri’s recipe book, I thought I would mention the mug as well as it is also associated with BM#50 meet.

Even if it is the same recipe, the end result is totally different. So it’s totally justified :-). I read somewhere that in olden days small amount of batter was put into the oven to check the temperature before baking the cake and that’s how cookies were born! Anyway, these look amazing and would pair so well with a glass of milk.